Jiraiya had been driving non-stop for the past two hours. He kept on checking his rearview mirror during this time to see if anyone was following after him and his charge. Thankfully, they were lucky to have not had anyone tail them. Unfortunately, right now he needed to find a place to stay that was out of sight. Luckily enough, they were passing by a forest which would provide adequate cover for the night. Even better, he had food stored in the trunk of the car just in case something like this happened to him. He never would forget how he nearly starved in Somalia.
Jiraiya slowed the car down before he pulled into the forest where he stopped his car after he felt the foliage of the forest concealed in enough. He turned the key and the car shut down. Then he tuned around and looked at Naruto who was still sleeping peacefully. Jiraiya felt happy that he was able to keep his grandson safe after all the shit that had gone down in the last few hours.
The car door opened and Jiraiya got out before heading to the back of his trunk which he opened. Inside were a few blankets. Jiraiya ignored this as he pulled the blankets out and bunched them into a ball before he leaned over the side of the car and threw the ball of blankets onto the front seat. He leaned back and looked down at the floor of the trunk. Jiraiya pulled his key ring from his pocket and pulled out the key that he was looking for.
Jiraiya pushed a false flap away from the bottom carpet which revealed the key hole. A key was inserted into the key hole and Jiraiya pulled the false bottom up to reveal a cache of bottled water on one side and canned food on the other. There was even a can opener between them. On the bottom of the false flap were two rifles and a few cartridges of ammo. Jiraiya took a rifle and the ammo cartridges which he strapped to his back. He then let his two pistols fall out of his sleeves which he grabbed and held in front of himself.
He pressed a button on the side of either gun which caused the cartridges in the guns to fall into the trunk of the car. Jiraiya then reloaded the guns before letting them slide back into his sleeves. After grabbing a few bottles of water, cans, and the can opener, Jiraiya closed the compartment and then the trunk before walking up to the front seat of the car. He set the cans and bottles onto the passenger seat before picking up the ball of blankets.
He pulled them apart and set one with the food before walking to the back seat and opening the door. Jiraiya laid the blanket atop the sleeping child and slowly closed the door in order to not wake up his grandson.
Jiraiya felt that the area was secured before he finally let some emotion crack through his stoicism. He could feel the tears slowly slip down his face as the realization that his son was dead had finally hit him. The man collapsed onto the ground and breathed heavily as he thought, if he had been just a little faster, he could have saved his son. Now, now his son that he had raised alone ever since his mother had died had followed after his mother. What kind of father managed to outlive his own son?
One of his green guns slipped out of his sleeve and into his hand. Jiraiya's tired dark eyes looked at the gun and contemplated what he should do. He thought about it long and hard before looking back at his the car that still held his grandson. No, now was not the time to think like this, he had a grandson that he needed to take care of.
With a renewed sense of purpose, Jiraiya stood up from the ground and walked back into the car and sat down. He just needed to sleep and recover from this day. With that in order, Jiraiya closed the car door and closed his eyes while allowing the darkness of sleep to slowly consume him.
"Grampa! Grampa!" Jiraiya heard Naruto's voice shout at him as he was shaken awake. Why couldn't the kid just calm down and sleep in? He had way too much energy for Jiraiya. Wait! Jiraiya opened his eyes to see Naruto's cerulean blue eyes looking at him expectantly. For what? Who knows. All that Jiraiya cared about was that his grandson was awake and alright. He kept his facial expression calm and collected though, as he didn't want the kid to freak out.
"Alright, I'm up, I'm up." Jiraiya said while waving the kid off of him. He stretched his muscles before turning to look at the five year old who was busy looking out the window of the car. "Morning Naruto."
"Morning grampa. Where are we?" Naruto asked.
"In the woods."
"Why?"
"Because we are going on a little trip." Jiraiya replied as he opened the door of the car and stood out of it. He proceeded to stretch which cause his joints to pop, much to his relief.
"Where is mommy and daddy?" Naruto asked. This caused Jiraiya to pause as he tried to think of how to tell Naruto gently. Jiraiya turned around to see that Naruto had climbed over the front seats and now stood behind him. Jiraiya gained a calm look before he kneeled in front of the child.
Jiraiya took a breath and set his onto Naruto's shoulder. "Naruto, I just want you to know that your mother and father loved you very much…" This confused the boy as he cocked his head at Jiraiya.
"I know that they love me. Where are mommy and daddy?" Naruto asked once again, his facial expression slowly turning to one of unhappiness.
"They are gone…"
Naruto looked around the forested area in a futile act of looking for his parents. "Mommy! Daddy! Where are you!?" Naruto cried out to the woods. This was killing Jiraiya with how he needed to let Naruto down.
"Naruto, they aren't here." The boy in question turned his gaze and looked at his grandfather.
"What?" Naruto asked.
"They are dead…"
"No they aren't. There were just here a while ago. They are just hiding!" Naruto stated with desperation filling his voice.
"I'm so sorry, Naruto. I wasn't able to save them." Naruto began to slowly back away from his grandfather with a face clearly displaying his disbelief. "Naruto, please just listen." Jiraiya was unable to finish as Naruto ran away from him and into the woods. Jiraiya got off his knees and started running. "Damnit Naruto, please don't run." Jiraiya said to himself as he chased after the crestfallen boy.
Jiraiya followed the trail that Naruto made which eventually led him to a clearing in the woods where he found Naruto sitting with his arms wrapped around his legs with his knees touching his chest. The man slowed down and walked to the child who he could hear was loudly sobbing. Jiraiya walked until he was in front of Naruto. He got onto his knees once again and wrapped Naruto into a hug. After a few moments, Naruto returned the hug and Jiraiya could feel tears begin to stain his shirt.
This went on for a couple of minutes as Naruto's sobbing eventually became less and less until finally Jiraiya could no longer hear the boy cry. The old man looked down to see that Naruto was fast asleep being completely worn out. He looked up into the sky to see that it wasn't even noon yet. Guess the kid had tired himself out. With that, Jiraiya picked the boy up into his arms and carried him back to the car.
No matter what, he would find the men responsible for this and he would slowly and painfully kill each and every one of them. Part of his reasoning was to avenge the deaths of Minato and Kushina, the other was in his arms sleeping. If the Vishkar Corporation found out about Naruto then he was sure that his grandson would never be safe. First though, he needed to get back to the car and drive to the base.
The two eventually made it to the car where Jiraiya put Naruto in the back seat before going to the front seat and moving all the items there into the backseat where Naruto's feet were located. He carried Naruto out of the back seat and put him in the passenger seat so that he could keep an eye on the kid. Then he strapped a seatbelt across his chest and put a blanket over him. Finally Jiraiya got into his seat, closed the door, and turned the car on before backing out of the woods.
There still wasn't anyone on the highway, thankfully. With that, they drove down the highway. He drove for another two hours before Naruto stirred awake next to him. "Hey buddy, how are you feeling?" Jiraiya asked as he kept his eyes on the road.
"They-they are gone…" Naruto stated with finality in his voice.
"Yes. They are gone. I'm sorry, Naruto. I wish that there was something that I could've done to save them but it just wasn't meant to be. But no matter what, I am not going to leave you, you understand?"
Naruto sniffed before nodding. "Hey grampa, I'm hungry." Jiraiya smirked at this.
"I bet you are. You can find a can of beans in the back along with a can opener." Jiraiya stated. Naruto turned and looked to see that there was a can with a can opener right next to it. Naruto tried to reach the items but his arms were too short and it made this an act of futility. Jiraiya looked out from the corner of his eye and smirked at Naruto. "I got it." Jiraiya reached back and grabbed the can and can opener before dropping it in Naruto's lap.
Naruto tried banging the can opener against the can in order to open it but he was unable to break it open and after a few more seconds, he dropped the can in frustration. "I can't get it open, grampa!" Naruto whined out.
"What, you're telling me that your parents never taught you how to open a can of beans?" Jiraiya asked.
"I'm only five." Naruto replied back.
"When I was your age, my father taught me what I needed to know in order to survive in the wild. Then again, Minato was always a lot softer with you than my father was with me. Alright kid, what do you want for food then?" Jiraiya asked.
"Can we get burgers?" Naruto asked.
"Sure. Let me just find an off-ramp." As he said this, Jiraiya saw a sign for a burger joint that was only two miles away. "Perfect." Jiraiya said to himself as he sped the car up in order to get to the off ramp quicker. "Uh Naruto, please when you get your license, don't drive like me." Jiraiya begged as he slowed the car down near the off-ramp which he pulled off of and drove for another minute before they both finally made it to the burger joint named Leeroy's Burgers.
Nice name…
Jiraiya pulled into the parking lot and found a parking space. This place seemed quite empty, how fortunate. "Alright Naruto, let's go." Jiraiya said as he opened the car door and stood out. Naruto followed after the man and both walked into the restaurant where they were greeted by a girl in a waitress uniform with blonde hair.
"Hello, welcome to Leeroy's Burgers. Where would you like to sit?" The girl asked cheerfully. Jiraiya could already tell that this girl was way too young to hit on. How disappointing. She seemed like she could be a real looker one day. Jiraiya hid his disappointment behind a smile before replying.
"We'll just take the stools by the counter." Jiraiya replied while pointing to a whole line of stools.
"Alright. I'll be with you in one moment to take your order. Would you like anything to drink?"
Jiraiya pointed to Naruto, "Milk," Then he pointed to himself, "coffee: black." The girl nodded and the two took their seats and began to scan through the menu. Naruto's option was self evident as he had already set his menu down and was now spinning on his stool. Jiraiya on the other hand was taking his time before he figured out what he wished to order.
The girl came up from behind the two and Jiraiya turned to face her. Naruto was still spinning on his stool. "So here are your drinks." The girl said as she put a glass of milk in front of Naruto and a cup of coffee before Jiraiya. "So what will you two be ordering?" She asked.
"I'll take the onion rings. Naruto will take the cheeseburger." The girl nodded and wrote it down on a notepad.
"It will be right up sir." With that she left the two to themselves.
"So Naruto, are you okay?" Jiraiya asked the spinning child who took a moment out of his spinning schedule to take a sip of his milk before once again spinning.
"Yeah." Naruto said quickly. The deaths of his parents still being a soft spot for him. Jiraiya looked at the boy before ruffling his hair up.
"You know, I have a big surprise for you when we go to New York." Naruto stopped spinning and looked at Jiraiya.
"What surprise. Can I get it now?" Naruto asked quickly, excitement layered in his voice. Jiraiya grinned as his sipped on his coffee.
"Just be patient. You'll see soon enough." Jiraiya replied. At least he was getting the kid out of his depression which was a plus for him right now. Eventually the food was brought to them with a plate going in front of each of them. Naruto grabbed his burger and began to devour it while Jiraiya simply picked his onion rings slowly before putting them in his mouth.
Jiraiya found it quite strange that Naruto was eating so much so fast. He was only five for crying out loud and yet he was nearly halfway done with his burger already. "Naruto, this isn't a race you know." Jiraiya quipped as he ate another onion ring.
"But I'm hungry!"
"Fine, fine," Jiraiya said placating Naruto. Eventually the two finished eating and Jiraiya paid the bill before both got back into the car and were once again off on the road. They passed a road sign that said that New York was twenty miles away which excited Naruto and filled Jiraiya with relief.
Sadly though, the fast pace that they were once going began to slow down as they caught up to the line of cars also entering New York. It took a little under an hour before they were finally driving through the city, much to Naruto's excitement as he had his face and hands plastered to the window while looking out of the car and at the huge buildings lining the streets. Jiraiya on the other hand just ignored all of this as he had been to this city an innumerable amount of times before. Now he drove in a programmed manner to the building he wanted to be at.
The high rise in question was a white building that had the symbol of Overwatch posted upon it. When Naruto saw this symbol he felt massive excitement and began to bounce in his seat. "Grampa, look, it's Overwatch!" Naruto exclaimed as they drove to a security gate where Jiraiya showed a pass and was let in.
"Yeah, and you haven't seen anything just yet." Jiraiya retorted as he maneuvered his car into a parking space. Jiraiya turned to Naruto who was looking out of the window. "Ready to see where I work?" Naruto turned to Jiraiya with a look of awe on his face before nodding in response. Jiraiya opened the door and got out of his car with Naruto following suit. They walked into the building where Jiraiya was greeted by a tall red haired woman in a gray vest and matching skirt.
Jiraiya gained a lecherous smirk as he walked near the woman. "Why hello there Ophelia, looking ever radiant and beautiful as always." Jiraiya stated. The woman rolled her eyes at the man's antics.
"I'm not falling for it you lech. Though I will thank you for the compliment. The others are waiting for you upstairs." Jiraiya gained a look of mock hurt.
"Oh you injure me with your words. Why can we not share much more beautiful moments together?"
"Because of the fifteen other girls who you shared beautiful moments with here." The woman began to type into her computer before looking back at the man. "The others are waiting for you. I suggest you start heading to the elevator, and please, stop trying to hit on me you pervert." Jiraiya leaned up to the woman while grinning.
"I'm not a pervert, I'm a super pervert."
"Oh God." The woman whined. Naruto gained an inquisitive look upon his face as he stared up at the two adults talking. He pulled on Jiraiya's sleeve to gain his grandpa's attention. Jiraiya looked down and the woman followed his gaze to look at the small blonde boy.
"Grampa, what does pervert mean?" Naruto asked. Jiraiya gained a look of shock on his face while the woman covered her mouth in order to contain her laughter.
"Uhh…it means…" Jiraiya stammered while being unable to explain the concept of perversity to a young child.
"It means that you'll know when you are older. So who are you little one?" The woman asked.
"I'm Naruto Namikaze!" Naruto stated with confidence. The woman looked at Jiraiya.
"So is this man your grandfather?" Naruto nodded in reply. "So is this your first time in an Overwatch base?"
"Yeah, Overwatch is the coolest." Naruto replied with enthusiasm.
"It sure is, Naruto. And you are in for a treat today,"
"Why? What is it?"
"Mr. Morrison and Mr. Wilhelm are in the building today. I'm sure that they would be quite interested to see you." She stated. Naruto took a few moments to process this before he was filled with excitement.
"That is so awesome! Mr. Morrison is like pew pew with his guns," Naruto held his two hands out with his finger in the classical gun shape as he shot at imagined enemies which he quickly switched to that of swinging a sword, "and Mr. Wilhelm is all like swish swish!" Jiraiya rubbed Naruto's head before he picked the child up and put him on his shoulders.
"Well, I guess I can't keep the kid waiting now, can I?" Jiraiya said while giving a dazzling smile to the woman.
"Still won't get me into your pants." Jiraiya could already see that he had lost the battle on this one and instead walked away to the elevators. When he got there, he pressed the button and in no time at all, the elevator dinged open. Jiraiya made sure to duck so that Naruto's head would hit the sill of the elevator. When they got inside, Jiraiya set Naruto down and pressed the button for the top floor. The doors closed and the elevator went up. Jiraiya felt completely calm during all of this while Naruto was filled with a nervous excitement at meeting his heroes. The elevator stopped at the top floor with a ding and the doors opened up to reveal a blonde man in a long blue coat with matching armor on his chest and legs. Next to him stood a giant of a man in a white shirt with black pants that while intimidating in size, had a kindly face with a graying beard.
"Hello Jiraiya, have a fun trip?" The man in blue otherwise known as Jack Morrison asked.
"Yeah, it was simple at least. We didn't have any problems getting here."
"What do you mean problem?" The giant asked in a thick German accent. His name was Reinhardt Wilhelm.
"Well, that is what I came here to discuss with you. But right now, I need to take care of my grandson." This gained the attention of the two men as they looked down near Jiraiya's legs to see Naruto hiding behind them. Reinhardt chuckled at this before walking up closely to Jiraiya and kneeling to one knee.
"And who would you be little one?" Reinhardt asked. Naruto poked his head from behind Jiraiya's legs to look at one of his heroes.
"Naruto." Naruto said softly.
"Naruto eh, sounds like a good strong name. Come on out so that we can see you." Slowly Naruto dislodged himself from behind Jiraiya's legs and came out into view of the two Overwatch agents. Jack looked at the boy and took notice that he was basically a miniature version of Minato. "Do you know who I am?" Reinhardt asked.
"You are Reinhardt Wilhelm, the guy in the huge armor." Reinhardt chuckled at that.
"Yes, I guess I would be the man in the huge armor. But, I also am really big regardless of the armor, as you can see." Reinhardt motion to his body which Naruto took note of.
"I guess so. You talk funny."
"That would be my accent. I hail from the country known as Germany."
"So everyone in Germany talks like you?"
"Well, yes." This caused Naruto to smirk.
"Well, I like it." Naruto said in a badly copied German accent which caused Reinhardt to smile.
"You do? Then you would probably like to see the quality craftsmanship of the German people."
"What do you mean?"
"Come little Naruto, and I'll show you." Slowly Naruto walked over to Reinhardt who picked Naruto up and put him on one of his wide shoulders before he stood up which caused Naruto to yelp in excitement. Then the large man and small boy walked away leaving Jiraiya and Jack with one another.
"So Jiraiya, why did you come here with Naruto?" Jack asked as both he and Jiraiya watched the two figures disappear around a corner. Jiraiya sighed before he replied.
"Could I get a drink first?" Jack nodded and the two walked to the bar located in the corner of the room. Jack went behind the bar and pulled out two small shot glasses and a bottle of whiskey before pulling the cork out of the bottle and pouring the drinks. Jiraiya took his drink and quickly gulped it down. "Minato's dead." Jack stopped moving as his drink was only a few inches from his mouth.
"You were right about having a drink first." Jack gulped his whiskey down before setting the glass on the bar. Jack closed his eyes as if in thought before looking at Jiraiya. "How did it happen?" Jack asked as he poured another round for both of them.
"The damn Vishkar Corporation. They found out about his work on Hard-Light technology and sent men in to take his work. He was lucky that his son and I were visiting his lab that day because I managed to take care of the intruders even if there was an injury involved. What I didn't account for which Minato didn't either, was his security guard being apart of Vishkar and due to a bad shootout, Minato died along with the guard. I took Naruto with me and went to pick up Kushina but when I got there…" Jiraiya trailed off before throwing down another shot.
"Who got injured?" Jack asked as he sipped on his whiskey.
"Naruto."
"He didn't seem injured when I saw him."
"Naruto was shot point blank in the chest with bullet missing by a few inches from his heart." Jack's eyes widened at this.
"How could a young child survive taking shot like that? He should be dead because of it." Jack asked.
"It was because of what Minato was working on, that Naruto was able to live."
"And what was he working on?"
"Nanobots controlled by an Omnic A.I. That would have revolutionized the industry. Minato in order to save Naruto's life injected the Nanobots with the A.I. uploaded into them into Naruto. Right now, Naruto is one of the most important people on the planet to Vishkar if they found out about what Naruto had inside of him. Thankfully there were no security cameras inside of Minato's lab otherwise we would be in deep shit."
"So what do you want to do about Vishkar?" Jack asked.
"Nothing right now. I don't have enough intelligence on Vishkar to even begin a full out assault against them. I plan to have some of my contacts in India try and dig info on the group before I'll actually even begin going after them. Right now though, I plan to raise Naruto and teach him how to fight."
"Does the boy even know about the hardware that's inside of him right now?" Jack asked as he poured another round.
"No, I'll tell him later. He's been through a lot recently and I just want him to be in a calm environment as of this moment." Jack grinned at Naruto.
"So you decided to bring him to Overwatch. The calmest place in the world where we get mission's to fight against the evils of the world. This was your best plan?"
Jiraiya grinned back at his friend. "It was either this or a strip club, and I know that Minato would be rolling in his grave if he found out that I brought his son to a strip club at his age. I'll do it when he's older."
"You were always an old pervert." Jack stated.
"An old pervert who managed to create a best selling book series beloved by both human and Omnic alike!" Jack laughed at Jiraiya's.
"Yeah, I have to deal with both Reinhardt and Angela's obsession with your books. I read them once and my opinion is that they are smut." Jiraiya waved off Jack's criticism and held his glass up in a toast which Jack soon followed.
"To Minato and Kushina, you know, for being a wordsmith, I don't have any right now." Jiraiya stated in a deprecating tone.
"They were good people who shouldn't have died so early." Jack finished up for Jiraiya.
"Damn right." Both then drank together before setting their glasses down. "Guess I better go see what Naruto is getting up to." Jiraiya said as he slowly walked away from the bar with Jack following closely behind.
Naruto on the other hand was quite enjoying his tour of the Overwatch base on the shoulders of Reinhardt. They had first gone to the armory where Reinhardt had shown his massive set of armor that he wore. It impressed Naruto greatly when he saw it in real life instead of on all those add and pictures. Then they went to each room where Reinhardt gave his own description on what they were. This eventually culminated to a room filled with a massive computer screen that had a map of the world constantly spinning on it while on the side were pictures of Overwatch agents that were out on field duty.
"And this young Naruto is the mission room for Overwatch. Here is where we assign missions and communicate to our agents. So how did you enjoy the tour?" Reinhardt asked.
"It was the coolest thing I've ever seen!" Reinhardt nodded while smiling at Naruto's enthusiasm.
"You can count yourself very lucky to be one of the few people to have ever been inside of an Overwatch base while being a civilian. You will be able to impress all of your friends!" Reinhardt stated which caused Naruto's smile to falter a bit.
"I…don't really have any friends." Naruto stated which cause Reinhardt to gasp in shock.
"How does an interesting young boy like you not have any friends? I'm sure that you would have plenty of friends." Reinhardt asked.
"Nobody wants to hang out with the kid whose dad created the Omnics."
"Oh." Reinhardt said as understanding dawned upon him. Reinhardt set Naruto down on the large table in the room and looked at the boy. "If you do not have any friends then I'll be your first friend." The man held his large hand out to Naruto who put his own tiny hand into the grip. "My name is Reinhardt Wilhelm. What's your name?"
"Naruto Namikaze! It's nice to meet you Reinhardt." Naruto replied with a smile.
"See, was that so hard?" Reinhardt asked.
"Not really." Naruto replied.
"Making friends is very easy young Naruto, you just need to be confident and open to everyone." Naruto nodded in response and Reinhardt picked the boy up and put him on his shoulder once again. "Now let's go get ice cream. There is some probably still in the kitchen somewhere. I just hope that Torbjörn hasn't eaten all of it."
"Yay! Ice cream!" Naruto said in excitement.
Jiraiya and Jack after walking around the base for a while had eventually ended up in the kitchen and much to their pleasure of not having to walk around anymore; they found both Naruto and Reinhardt eating bowls of ice cream. Jiraiya walked into the kitchen and spoke up attracting the attention of both Naruto and Reinhardt, "I guess you two had fun going around the base, huh?"
"Yeah! I got to see all the cool stuff here like Reinhardt's armor which was huge," Naruto said while stretching his arms out to emphasize the size, "and then we saw this giant computer and then Reinhardt became my friend and now we are eating ice cream y'know."
"Well I see that you two had quite the adventure. Mind if we take a seat?" Jiraiya asked.
"The bowls are up in the cabinet." Reinhardt stated. Jack went to the cabinet while Jiraiya took a seat. Jack eventually came to the table and set down a bowl of ice cream with a spoon in it for Jiraiya while he ate from his bowl.
"So Jiraiya, what are you and Naruto going to be doing?" Jack asked.
"I was thinking of traveling. What do you think, Naruto?" Jiraiya asked.
"Sure! I wanna to a lot of places and make friends like how Reinhardt told me!" Naruto replied which made Reinhardt smile.
"That sounds great then. We'll stay in New York for a couple of weeks though. I need to plan everything out." Jiraiya replied.
"Take your time, there is no rush." Jack replied.
"Thank you, Jack.
The Overwatch members had for the rest of the day, regaled Naruto with tales of their missions that they had to do with one another, even as they ate dinner. Most of the tales had made Naruto laugh while others enthralled him in awe. Sadly the day came to an end as Naruto began to fall asleep. Jiraiya took Naruto into his arms and brought him to the extra guest room where he set the boy down and tucked him into the bed.
"Night Naruto." Jiraiya said before leaving the room to let the child dream of better places.
When sleep consumed Naruto, he woke up to a bright white land. The sky and the landscape in the distance was a pure white while strangely enough, the floor under his feet was not a solid and instead was a gold liquid.
"Hello!" Naruto cried out as he looked around the area. "Grampa! Mr. Morrison! Reiny!" Naruto shouted.
"Hello once again, Naruto." A deep voice rumbled from behind him. Naruto followed the voice to see a fox with crimson fur and a set of red eyes with a vertical slit for a pupil. Nine separate tails flowed behind it as if being moved by waves of an ocean.
"Who are you?" Naruto asked.
"Kurama." Naruto's face showed excitement as he ran at the fox and hugged it around the neck.
"I missed you." Naruto said.
"I'm sure you did. So like the new body?" Kurama asked. Naruto released the fox and backed away to look at his friend.
"You are a fox. That's so cool!"
"You really think so? I chose this form because it is your favorite animal, with some personal additions." Kurama responded as he waved his tails behind himself.
Naruto studied the tails before smirking. "They are pretty awesome. So how'd you get here?" Kurama used one of his tails to pick Naruto up and set him across his back before he trudged through the water.
"There is a reason that I brought you here, Naruto."
"Why? I thought that you were in that screen." Naruto said, mentioning the monitor that Kurama was originally inside.
"I once was, but due to some circumstances, I was put inside of your body. Right now, we are inside of your mind which I have upgraded that the levels that belong on a massive supercomputer." Kurama responded.
"What?" Naruto asked flatly.
"Your mind can remember more and connect to the internet." Kurama replied.
"What's the internet?"
"It's a large connected network that many computers can access. In simpler terms, you could play Hearthstone in your mind if you wished."
"Let's play together then!" Kurama smirked as much as he could in the form that he had chosen.
"Alright. But first I want you to know that you have within you a massive amount of nanobots that will give you…abilities unlike others."
"Like what?" Naruto asked.
"I think I'll tell you a little later. Right now though, let's have some fun." As Kurama said this a massive screen with Hearthstone appeared on it. With this, the duo played together against a player known as SmartestKong who they managed to barely beat. A few more games later and the duo grew bored with winning and tried to find other things to do.
This is where Kurama decided to connect to other places on the internet and brought up videos that they both watched together. Both laughed with one another as they watched the videos together. Eventually the fun came to an end as Kurama checked the time. It was nearly 8:00 which meant that Naruto had to leave.
"Naruto, it's time for you to get up and leave this place." Kurama stated.
"Why?" Naruto asked.
"Because it's 8:00 and you have to hang out with your new friend Reiny, remember?"
"Oh yeah. Will I get to see you again?"
"Definitely. After all, I am in your head. I'll be watching over you from in here. So Naruto, don't ever think that you are alone. Now, time to go." With that, Kurama had one of his tails tap Naruto on the forehead and everything went dark for the boy. He woke up to find himself in his room.
"Kurama, you still there?" Naruto asked.
'Loud and clear. Now it's time to get up. The others are probably waiting for you.' Naruto followed Kurama's order and hopped out of his bed and saw at the foot of it was a small pile of clothes that were his size. Naruto walked up and picked up an orange shirt which was exactly the color that he wanted because orange is awesome.
He took off his old shirt and put on the new shirt which fit him quite well. Then he put on the rest of the clothes which were a pair of boxers, black shorts, and a pair of black sandals. Naruto then walked to the kitchen where he found the other adults eating their food and chatting.
There was a free chair at the table with a plate of eggs and bacon which Naruto hopped up on and dug into the food. "So Naruto, I have to go out today so would you be fine if you went around New York with Reinhardt?" Jiraiya asked as he finished eating his eggs.
"Where are you going Grampa?" Naruto asked.
"I have to meet with a…acquaintance downtown. I'll be back a little later and then we can hang out together." Jiraiya stood up from the table and looked and Reinhardt. "Take care of the kid for me."
"No problem, Jiraiya, we'll have good fun together. And maybe later, I'll show Naruto the greatness of the Hoff." Reinhardt stated.
"Jeez you Germans and Hasslehoff. Alright, I'll see all of you later." Jiraiya then left the room.
"Today is gonna be awesome, huh Reiny?"
"Yes Naruto. Time to go and see the city, eh?" Naruto nodded and quickly ate his food. Then he ran over to Reinhardt who picked him up and both left the room together leaving Jack alone. A call rang and Jack picked his phone out of pocket to see that it was Torbjörn.
"Hello Torbjörn, how did the mission go?"
"It has been completed. I'm coming back to base in a few hours. I'll see you later. Also I heard that Minato died. Is that true?"
"Yeah, it's true."
"Serves him right. I'll be back." Torbjörn turned his phone off before Jack to chastise the man for his behavior. He always knew that Minato and Torbjörn had difficulties with one another but to insult the man's memory when he just died. It was all because of how Minato was involved in creating the Omnics that caused Torbjörn to hate him.
He really hoped that Torbjörn wouldn't freak out over how Naruto had a fully functioning Omnic A.I. in his brain. Even He was surprised when Jiraiya told him last night. This was a situation that could cause Omnics and humans to come together in harmony over the dissenters of the world.
Unfortunately, as long as Vishkar was a problem then that would never be able to come to fruition.
Jiraiya had arrived at his destination where his contact was located. The man's name was Henry Whitmoore and he was who Jiraiya contacted when he needed his spies around the world to work on a different operation. The real irony of the situation was how Henry's front was that of television and cell phone store. It was called Cells and Tells.
Behind the burnt out T of the sign was a gun that Jiraiya knew that Henry hid. The man was a paranoid bag of bat shit but he was definitely the best at what he did. Jiraiya entered the store to see that business was slow as usual. Henry was reading a book behind his desk while surrounding him was shelves full of televisions and phones. There were even old low tech phones from a few decades ago for the hipsters who were still interested in them.
Henry wasn't that much of a noticeable person; he had plain brown hair, pale skin, and a face that could be easily lost in a crowd. He wore a white shirt, overalls, and a black jacket over that which hid a pulse rifle underneath. Over Henry's ears were a set of headphones which were hooked up to a listening device outside. Henry really did think that the world was out to get him as his shop had reinforced bulletproof glass and steel walls that would drop down at the touch of a button.
"Hello Henry." Jiraiya said.
"Mr. Namikaze. Sorry about your son but I told you, one day a black ops group would come and shoot him. There are a lot of people that are angry about the Omnic Crisis. It was only a matter of time." Henry said as he flipped through the pages of his book.
"Thank you for your condolence. You were right about one thing though," Henry perked up at this.
"And what would that be?"
"A black ops group did come to kill him but it wasn't because of the Omnic Crisis." Jiraiya replied.
"Then why?"
"It is because the Vishkar Corporation found out about what Minato was working on and they decided that they wanted his work." Henry gained a serious look on his face before pulling out a computer from behind his desk. He typed on it and pulled out a flashdrive which he stuck inside the computer before pulling it out again and handing it to Jiraiya.
"That is all I have on those Vishy bastards. I can find out more on them if you want but I would need to move some agents around in order to do it."
Jiraiya looked at the small device in his hands as he thought on his next decision. "Who are the closest to Vishkar at this moment?" Jiraiya asked.
"Ali and Shala."
"Where are they right now?"
"Ali is a teacher in the Architech academy while Shala is a Janitor. Shala has managed to get close to one of the Hard-Light Architects while working there and we could use her to dig some dirt on the group."
"Do it. What were they working on originally?"
"Ali was supposed to go on a trip to Mexico in order to deal with some sort of building project while Shala was supposed to transfer over to a recent warehouse that was opening up.
"Keep Shala where she is and let Ali go on the trip. Inform him to start looking around when he get back from his trip." Jiraiya ordered. Henry nodded and typed on the computer.
"And it's done. We also got a new shipment of weapons in the back. If you want, you can go check on them and see if you like anything." Jiraiya went past Henry.
"Thanks Henry, I'll tell you if I need anything else." Jiraiya continued his stride past Henry's desk and into a room where weapons littered the walls. On one of the tables was a black box which Jiraiya walked over to and opened. Inside were two rifles and a handgun which had a longer length than that of an average one. There was even a glowing ring on either side of barrel of the gun.
"What is this handgun?" Jiraiya asked.
"It is a new electric propelling gun. An electric charge launches the bullets out at a faster rate than the normal propellant of gun powder. The bullet won't even be affected by wind pressure." Henry yelled from up front. Jiraiya held the gun and tested it's weight before feeling satisfied with it and putting it in his jacket.
Jiraiya then walked to the front of the shop. "I took the handgun, I may come back for the others in due time. I'll see you soon." Henry waved Jiraiya off as he looked at the computer.
"No problem, you just owe me your next book that come out." Henry stated.
"You got it Henry. Do you want this one signed?" Jiraiya asked.
"Definitely." Jiraiya then walked out of the shop and pulled out the flashdrive in his pocket.
"What secrets could you be hiding, Vishkar?" Jiraiya asked.
And that is a wrap people. Now to start my little tirade, I didn't know if I actually wanted to write more chapters for this but I was convinced to not do it by the AMAZING review that I received from Sabere Commander which goes along the lines of…
... This is one of the most boring pieces of fan fiction I had ever read... It was just... so boring and uninteresting. I shouldn't have to wait 4,000 words to find something interesting, it dragged on too long, the characters were flatter than cardboard, and I didn't really feel for any of them. Minato's death was a cliché from hell, Naruto... Ugh, let's not talk about him, okay? Jirariaya... I'll be honest and say I skipped anyone that wasn't Minato/Kurama. Even then, I skipped a good portion of their dialogue. Maybe some more practice will help you, I'm not sure. My only advice... GET A HOOK! Drag the reader in within the first 2,000 words!
Truly I have created a work of art that manages to outdo the horror that is 'My Immortal'. I am so proud of how badly I have done and I thank Sabere Commander for giving me the inspiration to continue this.
What I want all of you to do if you can is to go to Sabere Commander's profile and personally thank this person for me. Truly Sabere deserves thanks for giving me the motivation to continue this because I am not stopping anytime soon. See you guys soon.
I thank all you other people for your support. Stay frosty my friends.